A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWhen you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it.
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
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You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don’t play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever.
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There’s a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase.
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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
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All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music.
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Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
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Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.
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I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
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